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Saturday, November 30, 2013

EPA preparing to unleash.......

a deluge of new regulations

Happy holidays from the Obama
administration. Federal agencies are currently
working on rolling out hundreds of environmental regulations, including
major regulations that would limit emissions from power plants and expand the agency’s authority to bodies of water on
private property.

On Tuesday, the White
House released its regulatory agenda for the fall of
2013. It lists hundreds of pending energy and environmental regulations being
crafting by executive branch agencies, including 134 regulations from the
Environmental Protection Agency alone.

The EPA is currently
crafting 134 major and minor regulations, according to the White House’s
regulatory agenda.
Seventy-six of the EPA’s pending regulations originate from the agency’s air
and radiation office, including carbon-dioxide-emission limits on power plants.

Carbon-dioxide limits are a key part
of President Barack Obama’s climate agenda. The EPA is set to set emissions
limits that would effectively ban the construction of new coal-fired power
plants unless they use carbon capture and sequestration technology. Next year,
the agency will move to limit emissions from existing power plants — which
could put more older coal plants out of commission.

“The proposed standards, if
finalized, will establish achievable limits of carbon pollution per megawatt
hour for all future units, moving the nation towards a cleaner and more
efficient energy future,” the agency said in its agenda. “In 2014, EPA intends to propose standards of
performance for greenhouse gas emissions from existing and modified power plant
sources.”

Hundreds of coal plants that have
been closed or slated for early retirement due to Environmental Protection
Agency regulations, according to coal industry estimates.

“Already,
EPA regulations have contributed to the closure of more than 300 coal units in
33 states,” said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition
for Clean Coal Electricity.

However, the agency isn’t just
working on limiting emissions from coal plants. The EPA is also working on a
rule that would expand the definition of “waters of the U.S.” under the Clean
Water Act to include water on private property.

Republicans have hammered the EPA’s
draft water rule as the largest expansion of agency power in history.

“The
EPA’s draft water rule is a massive power grab of private property across the
U.S. This could be the largest expansion of EPA regulatory authority ever,”
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith. “If the draft rule is approved, it would
allow the EPA to regulate virtually every body of water in the United States,
including private and public lakes, ponds and streams.”

The EPA’s rule is heavily supported
by environmentalists who argue that it’s necessary to protecting water quality.
Smaller water sources, they argue, eventually
affect larger water sources that people use for recreation or their livelihood.

“It’s taking the way the Clean Water Act works back, so that it works
the way water works in the real world,” Bob Wendelgass, president and CEO of
Clean Water Action, told Fox News.

The EPA says the rule is needed to
clear up uncertainty left in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the
agency’s regulatory authority over bodies of water.

“The [Clean Water Act]
does not distinguish among programs as to what constitutes ‘waters of the
United States,’” the agency said. “As a result, these decisions affect the
geographic scope of all [Clean Water Act] programs.”

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